Systole, diastole, never ceasing — never even pausing. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
diastole and systole, diastole and systole, not arrhythmia. From Wordnik.com. [Distracted Much? Don’t Worry, It’s A Good Thing | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
Thus, inhalation presupposes exhalation; thus every systole, its diastole. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The systole plus the diastole forms the so-called "cardiac cycle" (Fig. 18). From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
This was attributed to variations in the filling of the heart during diastole. From Wordnik.com. [August Krogh - Biography] Reference
During the diastole, the blood flows into the heart, to be expelled by the systole. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
EBT in that case is imaging during a small portion of the heart cycle, i.e. during diastole. From Wordnik.com. [Statin disaster | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
Whence the motion which is generally regarded as the diastole of the heart, is in truth its systole. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
He was the greatest authority on the pulse, and he recognized that it consisted of a diastole (expansion) and a systole. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
And how should the semiluftars hinder the regress of spirits from the aorta upon each supervening diastole of the heart?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Contraction or systole is followed by a pause or diastole during which the blood flows from the veins into the auricles. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
Besides, how can their diastole draw spirits from the heart to warm the body and its parts, and means of cooling them from without?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Is this systole and diastole of the affection from sense to spirit, from spirit to sense, peculiarly characteristic of English poets?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Later in its action, the drug depresses the intra-cardiac motor ganglia, causing prolongation of diastole and finally arrest of the heart in dilatation. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
They were right only to this extent: the old cardioarterial organs occasionally hunted into defective feedback that required systole-diastole adjustments. From Wordnik.com. [Man Made] Reference
But if it be said: during diastole, they would then, and for two opposite purposes, be receiving both blood and air, and heat and cold, which is improbable. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Further when it is affirmed that the diastole of the heart and arteries is simultaneous, and the systole of the two is also concurrent, there is another incongruity. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
In the case of this organ, we must bear in mind its constant variations in bulk, its elastic compressibility, and its variations in position in systole and diastole. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
An alternating systole and diastole, says physiology. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
Systole, diastole, never ceasing -- never even pausing. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Systole, diastole, swift and ever swifter goes the Axe of Samson. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Not in the curious systole and diastole within which will one day cease. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass] Reference
Not in the curious systole and diastole within, which will one day cease. From Wordnik.com. [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference
For three hundred years and more the long steadily accelerated diastole of. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — First Series] Reference
Whence the motion, which is generally regarded as the diastole of the heart, is in truth its systole. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
Three hundred years of diastole, and then came the swift and unexpected systole, like the closing of a fist. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
The rhythm of all music is the systole and diastole of the Sacred Heart, which is the ebb and flow of an infinite ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Forgotten Threshold] Reference
And thus in all Macaulay's "Essays" we feel the systole and diastole, and the hot, strong, impatient movement of ruddy life. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors] Reference
And so the bombast rolls, and one brags against the other like systole and diastole which balance each other in the same heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Shakespeare] Reference
Or, instead of this systole and diastole alternation, the glory and the pang are fused and interpenetrated in a continuous mood. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning] Reference
It was like the breathing of some infinitely great monster, alive and palpitating, the sistole and diastole of some gigantic heart. From Wordnik.com. [Vandover and the Brute] Reference
I heard myself today very near to the Heart of Silence, whose systole and diastole is the ebb and flow of Love from Eternity to Eternity. From Wordnik.com. [The Forgotten Threshold] Reference
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